Quotes About Society

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

All go free when multitudes offend.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift.

A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.